Toronto Symphony Orchestra viola audition

Audition information
Position
Principal viola
Application deadline
April 11, 2022
Audition date
May 16–17, 2022
Weeks in season
43
Payment
$85,000 per year
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(Posted on March 22, 2022; last updated almost 3 years ago)

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Audition Repertoire
The first movement of an unaccompanied Bach suite or sonata
One of the following solos
Hoffmeister—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Stamitz—Viola Concerto in D Major, Op. 1
  • Mvt. I: exposition
Also one of the following solos
Bartók—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Hindemith—Der Schwanendreher
  • Mvt. I
Walton—Viola Concerto
  • Mvt. I
Solo orchestral excerpts
Berlioz—Harold in Italy
  • Mvt. I: 8 after 2 to 10 after 5
Enescu—Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
  • 1 after 7 to 8
Ginastera—Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23
  • Variation V: 32–35
Ravel—Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite
  • Mvt. V: 4 after 2 to 3 after 3
Strauss—Don Quixote
  • 1 after 29 to 5 after 33
Orchestral excerpts
Bartók—Concerto for Orchestra
  • Mvt. V: 400–445
Beethoven—Symphony No. 5
  • Mvt. II: 1–107
Brahms—Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Variation 5
Brahms—Symphony No. 4
  • Mvt. III: 1–19
  • Mvt. III: 294–317
Copland—Appalachian Spring Suite
  • 6 to 1 before 14
Mahler—Symphony No. 10
  • Mvt. I: 102–112
Mendelssohn—A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61
  • Scherzo: 17 to 1 after D
Mozart—Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
  • Mvt. I: 41–67
  • Mvt. IV: 134–182
Ravel—Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2
  • 158–166
  • 2 after 212 to 216
Shostakovich—Symphony No. 5, Op. 47
  • Mvt. I: 15–17
Strauss—Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
  • 77 to 4 after 79
  • 1 before 94 to 2 after 97
Strauss—Don Juan, Op. 20
  • 1 to 16 after C
Tchaikovsky—Symphony No. 6
  • Mvt. I: 19–63
Chamber music
Mozart—String Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K. 515
  • Andante
Possible sight-reading
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